In 1965, the first commercial Stereoscan SEM was built by Cambridge Instrument Company, a predecessor of Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd. To mark the 50th anniversary of this very first SEM sale, ZEISS hosted a celebratory event in Cambridge yesterday.

Students from the University of Puerto Rico are going in to space again. For the fifth time in as many years, UPR has had a project selected to be flown from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility as part of an educational project called RockSat-X.

Researchers at UC San Diego and the Harvard University have joined forces in order to develop a 3D printed robot with a a soft exterior and a rigid core. This robot is powered by a butane-oxygen mixture and has the capability to perform multiple untethered jumps.

A team of researchers from University of California, San Diego have discovered that the squared-shaped tail of a seahorse can grasp, grip and produce more contact points with a surface compared to a cylindrical tail.